Category: Featured Winstar News

Super Saver #1 freshman sire of Experimental Handicap horses

Already boasting the best start at stud by any Kentucky Derby (G1) winner since Seattle Slew, Super Saver further bolstered the quality of his first crop by placing four runners on the 2014 Experimental Free Handicap. The Jockey Club Experimental Free Handicap is a weight-based assessment of the previous year’s leading 2-year-olds, with the weights […]

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American Pharoah co-high weight on Experimental Free Handicap

Pioneer of the Nile’s American Pharoah, champion 2-year-old male and winner of the Del Mar Futurity (G1) and the FrontRunner S. (G1), shared the high weight of 126 pounds with Texas Red on The Jockey Club’s 2014 Experimental Free Handicap, released Jan. 29 by The Jockey Club. The Jockey Club Experimental Free Handicap is a […]

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Regally-bred Khozan a Distorted Humor ‘Rising Star’

Khozan came home the easiest of winners in his debut Saturday at Gulfstream Park, besting Wisecracker by 3 ¾-lengths to head a Distorted Humor “exacta” in the seven furlong maiden special weight affair for 3-year-olds. Wisecracker was a similar margin ahead of third-place finisher Great Stuff. Khozan earned a gaudy 102 Beyer Speed Figure for […]

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Pink Poppy blooms in Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Turf

Tiznow got his first stakes winner of 2015 Saturday at Gulfstream Park when Pink Poppy strode to a 1 ½-length score in the $100,000 Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Turf S. Tiznow is now the sire of 58 worldwide stakes winners and finished among the leading sires once again in 2014 with $7.5 million in […]

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Speightstown’s 2yo colt Bayerd now a two-time stakes winner

Bayerd battled to a game victory in the $250,000 Springboard Mile S. to give the 2-year-old Speightstown colt his second stakes victory in just five lifetime starts (VIDEO). With 16 stakes winners amassing 21 added-money victories in 2014, Speightstown is once again in the top 10 on the General Sire list with $8.4 million in […]

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Super Saver’s first-crop winners now number a dozen

Back Flip scored a wire-to-wire maiden special weight victory Sunday at Gulfstream Park to give Super Saver his 12th winner from his first crop. He also topped the $1.3 million progeny earnings mark, one of only two freshman sires to achieve the feat this year. WinStar recently announced that Super Saver will stand the 2015 […]

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WinStar Farm Keeneland November sale consignment wrap

WinStar Farm, which has sold 14 Grade One winners, had a total of 22 horses sell at the Keeneland November sale during session #8 on Nov. 11, including the top three prices of the session. Topping the list was the exciting racing prospect Barbados who broke his maiden at Keeneland: a son of leading sire […]

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WinStar duo headlines $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1)

Carpe Diem and Daredevil top perhaps the deepest field in the history of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1). Both of the WinStar-connected 2-year-olds are Grade 1 winners and are the top two choices on the morning line for Saturday’s 1 1/16-mile contest, scheduled for 2:45 p.m. ET at Santa Anita Park. WinStar Farm acquired half […]

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WinStar buys into Champagne (G1) winner Daredevil

Kenny Troutt’s WinStar Farm has acquired half interest in undefeated Champagne S. (G1) winner and leading 2-year-old colt Daredevil in a partnership with Let’s Go Stable that was announced Friday.   The deal calls for the Grade 1-winning son of More Than Ready to stand alongside his sire at WinStar Farm in Versailles, KY at […]

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Millionaire Revolutionary retires to WinStar

Multiple graded stakes-winning millionaire Revolutionary has been retired from racing and will stand the 2015 breeding season at WinStar Farm in Versailles, KY.  Revolutionary’s stud fee has been set at $7,500 stands & nurses, and he will participate in WinStar’s Dream Big Program, which offers breeders the opportunity to earn a lifetime breeding right in […]

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